New York, Part 1- 1/8-9
We went to Long Island, NY a couple weeks ago so that Heather could celebrate her birthday in NYC with family and friends.
After our lunch with Heather's sister, Donna (who always makes funny faces, even without a camera pointed at her)...
...our first stop was the Black Forest BrewHaus in Farmingdale. This was the bar we used to go to for happy hour when we first started dating almost 8 years ago. Every Friday, they'd put out a 10 foot sub, as well as some German sides, and 2 for 1 beers. mmm.....
They serve beers brewed on site, and their amber is the absolute best one I've ever tasted in terms of flavor, aroma, and color. It's like drinking honey made by drunken bees.
Bud greeted us at the door when we came home.
The next day, Friday the 9th, was Heather's birthday, so we went to NYC for some sightseeing.
Can you call a store a "mecca" if it's run by Orthodox Jews?
I played in a metal band back in NY, and the singer's landlord owned the Blue Point Brewery. When he got married, we had his bachelor party inside the brewery. It was my first time in an actual brewery, and my first time at a bachelor party. They make a great combo. I like this label and the image-related pun, someone should make a band sticker like that....
The beers warmed us up for more walking.
That's my brother. He works in Manhattan at a job where you can drink at your desk, lives in Brooklyn, drives a Vespa, and is very... confident. As you'll see later, I look just like my mom, but I've always said that Robert looks like our mailman. The only thing he's not good at is picking a decent restaurant for dinner. This was the best part of our meal:
I'm keeping the photo-tech stuff short for this post, but I would like to point out that you'll always see a beer in an American ad being backlit, like above (using the candle at the table, in this case). For some reason, Americans prefer seeing their beer all lit up. European ads don't do this. Europeans also don't serve beer with lemon wedges, not Hefeweizens, not Hoegaardens, not anything. We Americans have a strange relationship with beer, but that's a whole 'nother post.
After our lunch with Heather's sister, Donna (who always makes funny faces, even without a camera pointed at her)...
...our first stop was the Black Forest BrewHaus in Farmingdale. This was the bar we used to go to for happy hour when we first started dating almost 8 years ago. Every Friday, they'd put out a 10 foot sub, as well as some German sides, and 2 for 1 beers. mmm.....
They serve beers brewed on site, and their amber is the absolute best one I've ever tasted in terms of flavor, aroma, and color. It's like drinking honey made by drunken bees.
Bud greeted us at the door when we came home.
The next day, Friday the 9th, was Heather's birthday, so we went to NYC for some sightseeing.
Can you call a store a "mecca" if it's run by Orthodox Jews?
I played in a metal band back in NY, and the singer's landlord owned the Blue Point Brewery. When he got married, we had his bachelor party inside the brewery. It was my first time in an actual brewery, and my first time at a bachelor party. They make a great combo. I like this label and the image-related pun, someone should make a band sticker like that....
The beers warmed us up for more walking.
That's my brother. He works in Manhattan at a job where you can drink at your desk, lives in Brooklyn, drives a Vespa, and is very... confident. As you'll see later, I look just like my mom, but I've always said that Robert looks like our mailman. The only thing he's not good at is picking a decent restaurant for dinner. This was the best part of our meal:
I'm keeping the photo-tech stuff short for this post, but I would like to point out that you'll always see a beer in an American ad being backlit, like above (using the candle at the table, in this case). For some reason, Americans prefer seeing their beer all lit up. European ads don't do this. Europeans also don't serve beer with lemon wedges, not Hefeweizens, not Hoegaardens, not anything. We Americans have a strange relationship with beer, but that's a whole 'nother post.
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